Reproduction of the contents of this blog is prohibited without the author's consent. He was stopped immediately by others in the crowd. Gerd flew with the famed Jagdgeschwader 52 squadron on the Eastern Front where he scored the majority of his aerial victories and a price was put on his head by the Red Army. Of the 77 remaining Aces still alive, the oldest Ace is 104 years old and the youngest Ace is 72. After all, this country's leading World War II ace, Richard Bong, scored 40 confirmed aerial victories before being. official credit for the aerial destruction of any enemy aircraft. This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjernes Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day. After serving with the Navy for 11 years (five years of active duty and six in the reserves), Pool left military life and started a printing businessfirst in Tulsa, Oklahoma, then in Houston. The last fighter ace of the Battle of Britain has died, meaning just two of 'The Few' are still alive. Besides Galland they include Erich Hartmann, the top-scoring Ace in history and Gnther Rall who but for injury might have been. baseball, is a "target-rich environment." While such a short-sighted policy hampered the Br claimed 220 or 221 aerial victories, 16 of which were achieved while flying the Me 262 jet fighter, which was, at that time, fairly difficult to man. Barkhorns awards include, of course, the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, later adding the Oaks and Swords. He first saw action during the Battle of France in May 1940, when he successfully defended a reconnaissance plane from three French P-36 Hawk fighter planes. I'm with @shiryu though, I just wish . By policy, many American fighter groups were bombers, not to zoom off, hunting down enemy planes to shoot down. In 1942, he was transferred to another unit, Jagdgeschwader 5, where he received an another prestigious medal the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, after achieving 38 kills. The author of this blog denies to any person or entity of copyright management the authority to charge third parties for reproducing the contents of this blog. In this book, the story of each of the Luftwaffe's 204 Messerschmitt Bf 109 'aces' from the summer of 1940 is examined, with all of the individual biographies, detailing individual fates during. You have to stay focused. [3], German losses, on the other hand, were very high as well. While the 200+ kill Luftwaffe experten The fact that members of your squadron get sick, fall asleep and flip out takes a few levels to get used to, but it's fine. Follow her on Twitter @kberkowitzthel1. He was court-martialled, stripped of command over his fighter unit and put under house arrest. It beat the P-51 in the Reno Air Races, he says. I have been informed that Stolle, Benning, Rettberg and Hadeball have also passed away.